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Most if not all of us are fam i liar with financial budgets. In them, you make a list of all your available resources each month and a list of all your expenditures for each month. The goal is to arrive at a place where your income is higher than your outgo. To do this requires planning and self-control as you attempt to stick to your budget.
Today, I want us to try something a little different. Let ‘s make a budget of our time. Start with a weeks’ worth of hours. Before you grab your calculators, that would be 168 hours that you have as an available resource. Now that you know what your assets are, you can begin adding up your time consumption. For instance, how many hours a week do you sleep? How many hour s do you work in a week? How much time do you spend driving in your car? How many hours do you spend watching television? How often do you participate in various hobbies or side jobs? All of these plus many more activities will greatly cut into your reserve of hours each week. Go ahead and make your list.
Now I want you to consider how much of your time God has control of. How many hours were you able to put as time spent in study, prayer, worship, good deeds, etc.? Does God have a place in your life? As you budgeted and planned out your most precious commodity, did you give God His fare share? For many of us, I am afraid the answer is no. We simply find ourselves too busy or distracted to fit God in.
This is the day to change that. Like any budget, making changes to how we spend our time may be difficult, but it will pay off in eternal rewards for God’s People.
Walter Rayburn
Owl Hollow Church of Christ
Winchester, TN